NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS & DEVICESAfter receiving his doctorate from the University of Maryland at College Park, Nikhil Koratkar joined the faculty of the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in January 2001 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and to Full Professor in 2009.
Professor Koratkar is a winner of the NSF CAREER Award (2003), AHS Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Award (2004), RPI Early Career Award (2005) and the Electrochemical Society's SES Young investigator Award (2009). He has published over 60 archival papers in top ranked journals including Nature, Nature Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials and Small. These papers have been cited over 1000 times. He has obtained over $6.9 Million in research grants from several agencies including NSF, ONR, ARO, AEC and Industry. In September 2010, Professor Koratkar was appointed Editor of CARBON (Elsevier).
Koratkar's group is exploring structural and materials concepts such as advanced composites for energy generation, conversion and storage. Koratkar's group synthesizes a variety of nanoscale structures (carbon nanotubes, graphene, metal and silicon nanorods, nano-beams, nano-springs etc.) using techniques such as chemical vapor deposition and oblique angle deposition. Our research is focused on the study of these novel nanomaterials for energy and sustainability. The nexus between energy, sustainability and nanotechnology is an area that shows potential for great scientific and technological advances.
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